/kaiwen/writing/ en-us 2001-04-02T13:56:33-05:00 2002-12-08T14:16:34-05:00 Sometimes, I like to think music as a special form of language. The dictionary describes language as "any means of... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000032.html kaiwen 2001-04-02T13:56:33-05:00 Truth is a wonderful toy; otherwise things like one plus one does not equal two; a white horse is not... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000027.html kaiwen 1997-11-23T13:05:12-05:00 I remember the smell of coal and the surface of oven. I remember the aluminum chimneys and the bungalows. I... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000021.html kaiwen 1997-11-20T12:32:38-05:00 To begin a count of wonders, the first one is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He wrote a lot of music. To... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000018.html kaiwen 1997-11-02T12:29:59-05:00 There is an old Chinese saying: "Carrot or cabbage, everyone has a favorite." Everyone has a food whose place no... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000020.html kaiwen 1997-10-09T12:31:48-05:00 Of course, I steal the title from George Orwell too, but hesitantly. Whenever I think of his essay with the... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000017.html kaiwen 1997-10-02T12:24:08-05:00 Reading Annie Dillard's essays can be dangerous, especially the one titled "Living Like Weasels," because you don't know when you... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000022.html kaiwen 1997-09-23T12:33:39-05:00 The first book that impressed me was a series of cartoons adapted from the Chinese classic Pilgrim to the West.... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000019.html kaiwen 1997-09-02T12:31:02-05:00 The life of a moth is short, fragile, and insignificant. It is short because it cannot live for even one... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000025.html kaiwen 1997-04-02T12:36:11-05:00 About Last Night - to you, forest Why last night, again another night? dream only in night. Why in last... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000023.html kaiwen 1997-02-01T12:34:42-05:00 In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to the public criticizing statement of a group of white clergymen in a... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000026.html kaiwen 1996-05-02T12:38:05-05:00 When I was in music school, I used to have many concerts; some were recitals, some were chamber music concerts,... /kaiwen/writing/archives/000024.html kaiwen 1995-12-02T12:35:24-05:00